Roughdry
adj, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 In laundry work, to dry without smoothing or ironing. transitive
"Mr. Seeders was thin and had light hair, and appeared to have been recently roughdried and starched."
- 2 To dry shaped bricks before they are fired in a kiln.
"He had a cough which spoke sometimes of roughdried bricks in a builder's yard, and his calf muscles spoiled the particoloured set of his stockings."
- 1 Having been dried but not ironed.
"At the time of the injury appellant was operating a flatwork ironer, wheras thereafter her duties were confined solely to the folding of roughdry laundry, a duty which did not involve the same amount of dexterity or physical exertion as the job she was performing at the time of the injury."
- 2 Having been been sawn, edged, trimmed, and dried, but not surfaced or dressed by planing.
"The dry lumber was pulled from the kiln and held in the roughdry shed for a day or two before unstacking."
Example
More examples"Mr. Seeders was thin and had light hair, and appeared to have been recently roughdried and starched."
Etymology
From rough + dry.
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